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Beijing has thing for Puccini opera set in China

Puccini's 'Turandot,' set amid a bloody royal court, was once reviled as insulting. But as economic powerhouse China seeks to create an audience for Western opera, the work has seemed a natural.

LA County leaders vote in support of Wagner opera

County supervisors have voted to support the Los Angeles Opera's planned festival next year celebrating Wagner's epic "Ring" cycle despite one supervisor's protest over the composer's anti-Semitic views.

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AP Source: Michael Jackson dies in LA hospital

Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the "King of Pop" and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. He was 50.

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Music Review - Vox 2009 - From New York City Opera, a Sampling of New Dishes

Review of new operas performed by New York City Opera including "Invisible Cities," with music and libretto by Christopher Cerrone, adapted from the novel by Italo Calvino.

3 promising singers debut in 'Don Giovanni' at Met

Three debuting singers added zest to a star-studded reprise of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" that's returned to the Metropolitan Opera in the waning weeks of the season.

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Opera to Be Staged at Hidden Brooklyn Gem

"I was amazed that someone wanted to put on an opera in Williamsburg, Brooklyn," Father Beuther said.

Harlem's Apollo theater to create oral history

Columbia University and the Apollo Theater Foundation plan to create an oral history of the famed Harlem theater that launched the careers of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and other music legends.

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Matilde di Shabran at the ROH (Florez/Kursak/Kasarova) is not a show to miss

Premiering next week at the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden in London, England, is the rarely performed bel canto opera, Matilde di Shabran, by Gioacchino Rossini.

Vienna director sick, but good music saves opera

Damnation was the dominant theme Saturday in a new Vienna State Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust. But redemption triumphed in the form of wonderful singing and a powerful orchestral performance.

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